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Sincerity

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Sincerity is Carol Ann Duffy's final collection as Poet Laureate, offering a frank, disarming, and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. This poetry collection is presented in a beautifully foiled package, marking it as a significant literary event.
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This collection appeals to readers of contemporary poetry and those interested in profound reflections on life, loss, and memory. Fans of Carol Ann Duffy and lovers of finely crafted poetic language will find much to admire.

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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with Sincerity, her last full collection as Poet Laureate, a magisterial achievement from the greatest living poet of our times.

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with Sincerity, her last full collection as Poet Laureate, a magisterial achievement from the greatest living poet of our times.

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Sincerity, her final collection as Poet Laureate, is a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book of the year.

Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation's favourite living poet. (Jeanette Winterson)

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Praised as "wonderful" and alert to every sound and shape of language by the Sunday Telegraph, the poetry is described as magnificent, grounded, and heartfelt by the Scotsman. Erica Wagner highlights Duffy as a poet of skill, talent, and great heart.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509893454

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Picador

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 78g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was appointed DBE in 2015.

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